"You really like the tea here?" Bellatrix asks, swirling the brown liquid around with her spoon. "Really? The tea?"

Rodolphus laughs, spilling a bit of the tea he was drinking deeply. "Yes," he says, setting down the teacup. "I like tea. I like this tea. Don't tell me you only wanted to go here so that you could snog me."

"Now is there anything wrong with snogging you?" Bellatrix asks, running her finger up his arm and kissing his shoulder.

"Not at all," Rodolphus replies. "In fact, I'm a mighty good snogger. Got a talent for it. Basically a prodigy."

Bellatrix snorts. "Put your tea away and kiss me, Lestrange. You can't seriously prefer leaf water to me."

"Leaf water?" he says, incredulously. "Leaf water? Oh, you silly little girl. If you can't see the benefits to tea… Tea is, and this is fact so feel free to quote me on this, the greatest magic known to wizards. There is nothing that tea can't fix. Terrible day? Tea can fix that. Good day? Tea can make that better. Tea is the purest form of magic."

"I see why you and Alecto broke up. You took her here didn't you? Got all weird with your "tea" stuff…"

"For the record, I broke up with her-"

"Rodolphus Lestrange," Bellatrix say sharply. "Shut up right now and kiss me or I'll burn down your precious little tea shop."

Rodolphus laughs but indulges her, leaning in and kissing her. He puts a hand on her leg, pulling it up so that it rests over his thigh and leaning in even closer. "Mmm, you taste almost as good as tea," he laughs into her hair and Bellatrix hits his chest in protest. "Oh, come on, Bella. Let's get out of here. Find somewhere more private to get, well, more private."

Bellatrix grins satisfactorily and shoves Rodolphus, scooting him off the bench. "I'm never letting you come back here again. I'm afraid you'll fall in love with a cup of tea and I'll never get my boyfriend back."

Rodolphus laughs and takes her hand, pulling her toward the door. They only make it a few steps out of tea shop before they're locked in each other's lips. Bellatrix grabs Rodolphus's shirt and pulls him towards an abandoned alley as the kisses get more intense. They stop just before they reach the alley and Rodolphus pushes her up against the corner, his kisses traveling down her neck.

Bellatrix moans under his lips. He was a good distraction, this boy. Warm and generous in a way that always made her feel in control and always made her feel wanted. He wasn't as intense as some of the others she had been with, but having his lips against her neck made her feel good in an easy sort of way. And today, he really wanted her. Bellatrix navigates Rodolphus's lips back to hers and biting his bottom lip playfully. She's about to go in for more when she hears something that makes her stop.

"Andromeda Tonks. You know, I like the sound of that. I think it suits you."

Bellatrix's blood runs cold and she freezes in Rodolphus's arms. Tonks. She knew that name. She knew that name… Ted Tonks. That little mudblood brat that Andi had been messing around with, claiming she wanted a friend. But Bellatrix had squashed that problem. More than a year ago, she had squashed that.

"Are we meeting your parents here, Ted?" comes Andromeda next and Bellatrix nearly pushes Rodolphus off of her to storm down the alley, already sliding her wand out. There's a picture waiting for her on the end of the alley: her sister, Andromeda Black, with her arms wrapped around a mudblood boy, their lips no more than a few centimeters apart. "Or are we meeting them somewhere else?" Bellatrix watches her lean in to kiss him and her whole body boils with rage.

"Andromeda Black," She commands, her voice a tempered storm as it echoes through the alleyway.

Andromeda starts, pulling away from Ted with a sudden force as if she had been hexed. "Trixy," she says, panic in her eyes.

"What the hell is this?" Bellatrix asks, striding down the alleyway with her wand posed in her hand threateningly. Rodolphus stands at one end of the alley, not knowing what to do with this sudden change.

"Trixy, please…" Andromeda says, taking a step forward to try and appease Bellatrix, but she stops seeing the blaze in Bellatrix's eye. She finds herself shrinking under the intensity of Bellatrix's eye.

"A mudblood?" Bellatrix says, spitting the word with all the vile she can muster. Andromeda moves instinctively and Bellatrix shoots her another fiery look. "Is this what you've been up to, Andromeda Black? Cohorting with a mudblood? Getting all cozy with him by the looks of that. And what was that I heard him call you? Some little pet name? Andromeda Tonks? Dare you cast aside your family name so trivaly?"

"I love him," Andromeda says with a sudden confidence.

"You love him?" Bellatrix says, incredulously. "You love him? Do you love scum, too, then? The muck of the moat? Would you kiss dragon excreation, too, if we left you alone with it?"

"Enough," Andromeda says. "You don't understand. This is why I couldn't come to you, Trixy. You can't see past your prejudices enough to see what a wonderful person Ted is. And I love him, Trixy. I love him."

Bellatrix slaps her across the face, bruising her with a single blow and sending her to her knees.

"Don't you dare touch her," the mudblood boy says with a snarl, stepping forward angrily. "Don't you touch her."

Bellatrix spins her wand on him, lifting him into the air and away from Andromeda. "So your the little rat who thinks he's worthy of my sister, of a pureblood from the greatest house? You aren't even worth being a servant paving the roads under our feet." She sends a blast of the cruciatus curse sending through the mousy boy's body. Rodolphus takes a concerned step forward, but holds himself back, not knowing what to do.

"Stop," Andromeda says, standing. "Trixy, stop, please. Oh, god, you're hurting him."

"I'll do much worse than that until this little rat learns his place," Bellatrix seethes. She mutters a spell and flames starting crawling over Ted's body hungrily. Ted lets out a shrill scream and Andromeda grabs at Bellatrix's arm, sobbing.

"Stop, please. Oh, god, stop. You don't understand. You don't understand, Trixy." Tears are streaming down her face and Bellatrix turns her white hot eyes eyes to her sharply. "You don't understand, you don't understand. I'm pregnant, Trixy. I'm pregnant."

Bellatrix is so startled by the news that the spells stop with a suddenness and Ted falls to the cobblestones, letting out a low moan of intense pain. "Pregnant?"

Andromeda looks to her pleadingly. "I know you hate them. I know you won't understand, but I love this boy, Bellatrix. I love him with all of my heart. We're going away together, him and I. You'll never have to see us again. Please. Please, just let us go."

"So you have his little sperm growing inside you," Bellatrix says. She grabs her sister's stomach suddenly and Andromeda lets out a sharp groan of pain by the force of her grip. "You let him inside you? You spread your legs for a mudblood and dishonored our family? And more than that… You let his child grow inside you. You let it swell in your stomach." She digs into Andromeda's stomach and her sister winces. Bellatrix pushes her back against the alleyway. She slashes across Andromeda's stomach with her wand and blood starts gushing out, staining her white blouse. "You slut," she spits.

"Bella," Rodolphus says softly, concern in his voice. "That's your sister…"

Bellatrix shoots him a frigid look as well, silencing him. "Not anymore."

He takes a step back, not knowing what to do.

"I should kill that parasite right now," Bellatrix says coldly, turning her attention back to Andromeda. "Father would do the same if he was here. He'd tear it from your stomach. And then he'd kill this little rat as well."

Andromeda sobs, her whole body trembling.

"Don't… Don't you touch her…" the mudblood mutters on the floor, trying to sit himself up.

Bellatrix laughs, striding to him and letting Andromeda fall to the ground, clutching her stomach. Andromeda holds her hands out, stained with her own blood and her face pale. "What? You haven't learned your place quite yet, have you? So desperate for more."

"She's your sister, your family. How can you hurt her like that? That's your niece or nephew, too. No matter your feelings for me… Let her go. Let them both go." The boy sits up, his face half covered in ash and his clothing still simmering.

Bellatrix scoffs. "Such a noble spirit," she says, spitting on his face. "I do this for her. I do this so that she can realize how foolish her little beliefs are, how foolish she is, trying to run away with a mudblood."

"All you are is hate… No love in you."

Bellatrix raises her wand again and she knows there's almost a gleeful look on her face. She points the wand at the mudblood but, before she can get the words out, she hears a stuttering, "Cr-crucio," from behind her. The pain isn't as intense as her father's punishment, but it's enough to startle her. She had never thought to have her the word pass from Andromeda's lips. She moves to spin around to face Andromeda again, but Ted grabs at his wand, shouting, "Confingo!" Bellatrix is thrown back, dropping her wand and knocking down Rodolphus, too, with the force of the spell.

Ted pushes himself off of the ground and hurries to Andromeda, helping her up. He places a hand against her gushing stomach, fear in his eyes. He looks to Bellatrix, whose eyes are blinking back into alertness, and makes a quick decision. He holds Andromeda tightly in his arms and apparates, heading somewhere where he knows he can get Andromeda help.